Delaware’s new governor is not expected to make a decision on his new Secretary of Natural Resources and Environmental Control until March.

Why do we care? Last week, Cape Cod Commission Executive Director Paul Niedzwiecki confirmed that he’d had a conversation with Markell about that position.

Farm recommendation soon

Elaine Davis, the county’s purchasing director, said a review committee hopes to offer a recommendation to the county commissioners as soon as next week on the future of the county farm.

The committee has been looking at responses to its request for proposals for operation of the farm following the departure of Sheriff Jim Cummings’ inmates and supervisors.

“All three proposals were really good,” Davis said this week. “They all proposed some really interesting ideas.”

Ready to roll on roads

“Shovel-ready” is the phrase of the day, and the Cape Cod Metropolitan Planning Organization will hear Monday about a $500 million Economic Recovery Package coming to Massachusetts.

How the money will be sent on Cape and elsewhere in the Commonwealth will be reviewed and commented upon over the next month.

The MPO, a group of state, regional, and local officials, will meet Jan. 26 at 1 p.m. at the Cape Cod Commission conference room on Route 6A in Barnstable Village.

Interact with walking trails

Thanks to Jennifer Burkhardt, an AmeriCorps member assigned to the Cape Cod Commission, Cape Codders and visitors can find an interactive directory of the region’s walking trails at www.capecodcommission.org/pathways/

CC Foundation helps with human needs

Centerville’s Cape Head Injured Person’s Housing and Education Group, Inc., is among the beneficiaries of $30,000 in grants from the Cape Cod Foundation.

CHIP’s House will use its $500 to buy and put up a prefabricated greenhouse, which is being done by a local Boy Scout as his Eagle badge project.

Elsewhere in town, Independence House, Inc., of Hyannis received $1,500 for its Capewide domestic/sexual violence program.

Calvary Baptist Church in Hyannis got $2,500 to buy food and supplies for its food pantry. A Baby Center, a project of the Cape Cod Council of Churches that’s housed at Federated Church of Hyannis, received $1,000 for diapers and other supplies.